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Jon Langford Live at Magnet Theater on 2005-04-15

by Jon Langford

Publication date: 2005-04-15 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: JonLangford

Band/Artist: Jon Langford

Disc 1:
01 a piece of serious art
02 The Plans We Made
03 my story today
04 It's Not Enough
05 wannabe soccer hooligan
06 Tom Jones Levitation
07 letter to sophie 1
08 the old salty sea biscuit in "the wind"
09 middlebrow culture is our enemy
10 Sputnik 57
11 with pants aflame
12 Never Been in a Riot 1
13 primitive first single
14 Never Been in a Riot 2
15 lester bangs
16 Never Been in a Riot 3
17 letter to sophie 2
18 talking shop
19 Memphis, Egypt 1
20 checkpoint charlie
21 Memphis, Egypt 2
22 letter to sophie 3
23 charting our own demoralized capitulation
24 letter from bob wills' attorney
25 too lazy to split up
26 If Drinking Don't Kill Me, Your Memory Will
27 the double-r ranch
28 Long Black Veil
29 a short intermission

Disc 2:
01 the old salty sea biscuit in "barbecue pork"
02 Walking on Hell's Roof
03 letter to sophie 4
04 tootsie's orchid lounge
05 Hank Williams Signs His Contract*
06 make art, whirr, sell it
07 The Death of Country Music 1
08 gravestones
09 The Death of Country Music 2
10 letter to sophie 5
11 the punk-country connection
12 Dreaming Cowboy
13 bulls and heifers
14 Dollar Dress
15 letter to sophie 6
16 kinder, gentler stalinists
17 the old salty sea biscuit in "monkeys"
18 lenin's mummy
19 Nashville Radio
20 letter to sophie 7
21 daddy, who's that cowboy?
22 To the Last Dead Cowboy
23 the bloodletting
24 Folsom Prison Blues
25 a language of dreams
26 Delilah
27 pop-star celebrity activist stuff
28 Gallows Pole
29 letter to sophie 8
30 the perfect marriage of state and corporate interests
31 The Country Is Young

Disc 3:
01 intro
02 Over The Cliff
03 Broken Bottle
04 Sentimental Marching Song
05 Homburg
06 Half Past France
07 Are You an Entertainer?
08 chris mills goes to the lavatory
09 Drunk By Noon
10 Bourgeois Blues
11 Take This Hammer/Goodnight Irene
12 Dark Sun
13 Buy It Now
14 sally's solo ukelele improvisation
15 Wild and Blue
16 Last Fair Deal Gone Down
17 leeds neighbors
18 I Picked Up the Pieces
19 the dark queen of wales and the virgin pope
20 Tom Jones Levitation
21 Memphis, Egypt

Notes

Preview performance of Jon Langford's multimedia performance piece "The Executioner's Last Songs," a week before its official debut the following week at Milwaukee's Alverno College. The full stage performance incorporated music and spoken-word pieces with a stream of video projections that included everything from images from Langford's paintings, to old home movies from Wales, to footage of Langford reciting poetry while dressed as a pirate in a kayak in a bathroom sink.

(Postcard for the show can be found, for the moment anyway, at: http://magnettheater.com/images/executionerssmall.jpg)

Third disc is a late "acoustic" show that followed, with Steve Goulding joining in on a drumkit consisting of a plastic bucket, a paint can, and a fire extinguisher.

Musicians: Jon Langford (guitar, ukelele, vocals, readings), Sally Timms, (ukelele, shruti box, vocals, readings), Jean Cook (violin, vocals, readings), Tony Maimone (bass), with Barry Mills on keyboard-controlled video. Steve Goulding (percussion) on Disc 3 only.

* Title of Disc 2, Track 5 is a guess, as it was apparently a new song written for this performance.

Addeddate: 2005-04-29 15:23:54

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Identifier: jlangford2005-04-15.shnf

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